What's new for April

Sheesh! I can't believe it is April already! I have heard it through the grapevine that vendors may hear back about our Sexsmith Farmers Market applications as early as this week. I hope so, I get so excited about the upcoming market season. 

In the meantime, I have been fiddling about with the website(s). Just some reorganizing and such. I like the ease of Blogger but I have found there are a few limitations. The area for inserting images does not work well so I am having to work around this which causes time delays and inconvenience. 

I also have been playing around with my Square Online store that I still have but hadn't been using for a while other than for digital items. I was thinking it might be nice to add a few hand bags and things and just have it set for meet up delivery in G. P. I'm not interested in shipping stuff anymore unless it is absolutely necessary. The cost is just too much these days. And my husband heads to town at least 3 times a week so I am sure something can be arranged to move things along faster than mail. This way, a few things are available in the after market season as well as summer and fall.

(My little rant) The only glitch I have found with the Square online store is that there is an amount option on each item for buyers to select. This is fine and dandy for digital items but not for physical ones. Because they are custom, all physical items are one of a kind. There are, or rarely are, duplicates of an item. 

The number amounts shows up even though there is only one item listed! After a lot of fussing about, I finally got it to somewhat behave, it still shows on the item pages however. But at least if the customer tries to select more than one of the item, it stops during the checkout process finally stating that there is "not enough" items, and to reinsert the number amount to the correct amout, (which is 1). So perhaps, just keep in mind that if you are looking at a bag or something, please know that there is only one of that item unless otherwise specified in the description. (end rant lol)

Despite the glitches, for now, I think this will work out. I wanted to get away from Wordpress for a while (paid webhosting) and just use pre-set websites to save time and effort, and yes, cost. That way if I can keep my costs down, then I can pass them on to the customer by trying to keep my prices affordable. 

Right now, I have sort of split the old website into two, part of it being at Square Online, because they do provide a little website for free over there, with limitations of course. So I have put all the shopping oriented stuff there, policies, about page, etc. 

On Blogger here, I plan to keep the stuff of interest, such as the blog, my free tutorials section, free practice sheets for sewing practice, my museum of vintage sewing machines and just stuff to ramble on about. More community oriented stuff. I may add the Facebook heres here as well. 

I have been setting up links that go back and forth between the two sites so that they seam together as flawlessly as possible. If you end up at Square and want to come back here, just hit the "back to blog" link there. Also under that link you will find links for the Facebook page and the new Facebook group. In the Blogger menu, you have links for Smalls and Such and Seasonal for example that send you over to Square. The imaging is so much nicer there for those pages so I put them there. 

Anyway that is about it for now, I should get back to work making a few more things. I saw a video on a pie or casserole carrier that may need some investigation. Until next time, Happy Easter & tootle-loo!